Sentences with phrase «own garage»

Steve Jobs knew this — it's why, when he was starting Apple, he spent day after day calling investors from his garage.

The company has been a big proponent of the benefits of technology advances since it launched its business 30 years ago from a garage in Tempe, Arizona.

Ron Wyden, top Democrat on the tax - writing Senate Finance Committee, said Democrats supported a pass - through rate for small businesses, such as «a cleaner, a garage, a restaurant.»

After spending time in finance on Wall Street, Bezos founded Amazon.com in the garage of his Seattle home in 1994 and operated it exclusively as an online book retailer.

At the time, his friends working at startups were living in garages and were free to pursue their own ideas and cultivate their talents — he made his choice and joined them.

During that first year, the company was in an office «closet» in a Long Island town with its warehouse in the garage of Nesi's parents» home.

He pulls into a garage off Pearl Street, the town's main thoroughfare.

In the winter, one of those cabs is permanently garaged, and the other is used just for pre-paid reservations.

As a child, Kristina Benza used to tag along when her dad and uncle visited their company's huge worksites, which included wastewater plants, bridges, and parking garages.

So he would enter the garage around 11 p.m., after the guard had gone home, and pull into a space on the rooftop, where he would recline his seat and rest.

And then there's NightBird Recording Studios, the cutting - edge production facility located within the Sunset Marquis» underground garage.

They began in Peasgood's garage and then moved into Lindner's basement when it got cold.

And while the 3D printer - in - every - garage vision some futurists have been touting may never materialize, enterprise manufacturing may lead to a different kind of ubiquity.

VoIP companies often specifically target small businesses, offering full business telephone services — from automated voice answering to conferencing — without having to buy a $ 50,000 piece of communications hardware the size of your garage beer fridge.

A garage, kitchen or basement are ideal bases for your workshop.

He also says the patio and garage - storage simulators prevent the problem of irritated customers who bite off more than they can chew.

So she used her five years of savings and built her own commercial kitchen in a garage at her home.

Her husband went from hiding in the garage at kids» birthday parties to happily volunteering to take a dozen screaming children bowling, while Rosenfeld herself grew steadily more inward - looking.

The business grew, operating partly at Harvey Electronics and partly in the Leff family garage, and the whole family chipped in.

Woz and I started Apple in my parents» garage when I was 20.

The kitchen was designed to be sealed from the garage and with its own entrance.

Alexa can turn off lights, lock doors, adjust the thermostat, control your garage door — needless to say, you won't have to lift a finger.

Today, factoring has become significant in the financing of many other businesses that depend on fast billing turnaround, such as hardware stores, pharmacies, florists, wine and liquor distributors, parking garages (for commercial accounts), garden supply shops, pest controllers, and temp agencies.

«This digital garage is where we can shape and model new ideas and bring them to fruition,» Lee says.

500 Startups led the round, and was joined by investors including Asahi Medialab Ventures, DG Lab Fund (of Digital Garage and Daiwa Securities Group), Mobile Internet Capital, and Septeni Holdings.

«When people were worried about a friend of mine, they'd call him and ask if he wanted to go shopping or help them clean out their garage.

In many cases, you can start a business right out of your garage.

Canadian Tire has a similar program for garage storage, as well as in - store simulators for test driving tires, golf clubs and running shoes.

In a world of connected cars, they could help predictively maintain a car, scheduling a garage visit against its driver's personal calendar, and making sure that the mechanic has the parts they need in stock.

Creamistry's Jay Yim took a crazy experiment in his garage and grew it into a global ice cream brand.

Occupying two nondescript buildings at the end of a light - industrial cul - de-sac, General Fusion's headquarters bring to mind a super-sized tinkerer's garage.

If people were going to spend $ 20 on one show's T - shirt, he learned, it was going to be on Gas Monkey Garage.

He built Gas Monkey Garage to get on TV, and then he got on TV to get to everywhere else.

But the influx of brands into traditional DRTV time slots is increasing the cost of media time and making it prohibitively expensive for unestablished brands and garage inventors.

If you can work in a shared office space, or even out of a residential space like your home or garage, then do that.

A traditional view of entrepreneurs is that they are creative individuals who tinker in garages, lack social skills and can't run anything.

Big Bang means getting to an idea or start - up company at the beginning, exchanging industrial - design services for equity at the garage or even the back - of - the - envelope stage.

I asked Hawthorne whether infomercials were more of a «heartland» product — the result of garage inventors outside big - city production zones.

Ford launched a pilot program to install cordless charging pads in garages and other parking spaces to power up electric cars.

He came up with the concept of his brand before he even had a garage, or a show.

He shows me a low - slung, rust - covered 1952 Chevrolet Fleetline, the first car his garage built; and a hunter - green 1968 Shelby Mustang, riding high on off - road tires, meant to look like the Mustang that appeared in the 1999 remake of The Thomas Crown Affair.

He thought he could replicate Gas Monkey Garage with a show called Misfit Garage, which features a couple of his former mechanics and their Fired Up garage.

Wojcicki also helped Google get its start: She rented her garage to Larry Page and Sergey Brin when they first started Google.

The idea of entrepreneurs working in glorified garages trying to solve one of the most ambitious problems in physics sounds absurd on the surface.

We won't need parking garages or taxi drivers.

Take your car to your local garage and get a thorough tuneup.

On weekends, the guys in the neighborhood would come over, mess around with whatever car Ray had at the time and drink beer in the garage.

If you're leaving the car at home, keep it where you normally would — whether that's in the driveway or the garage, he said.

For emergency evacuation or supply - gathering missions, there's a helipad and a garage with a rotating floor for making a fast getaway with the car pointed front - first toward the door.

The user currently parks in public garages, and hopes to one day drive the van into the woods or the mountains.